Caterina Silva's 'Il più crudele dei mesi' at Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Rome

Caterina Silva (born Rome, 1983) presents her second solo exhibition at Galleria Valentina Bonomo in Rome, following her 2016 show in Münster. Titled 'Il più crudele dei mesi' (The Cruellest Month), the exhibition takes its name from T.S. Eliot's 1922 poem 'The Waste Land', translated into Italian by Giorgio Caproni as 'La terra guasta'. The show transforms painting into a space open to body, matter, and gesture, featuring works that combine natural elements with mental geometry. Key paintings include 'Fidelity' (2021), which prominently displays the word as its title; 'Quello che ha detto il tuono' (2021); 'Windless towards summer' (2021); 'Your shadow at morning' (2021); 'Drip drop drip drop' (2021); and two small-format works from a cycle created in the Dolomites between September and December 2021: 'In a cold blast' (2021) and 'OOOO' (2021). Larger works 'Himavant' (2022) and 'Hug, hug, hug' (2022) suggest new directions. The exhibition is presented by Anna Cestelli Guidi. Silva's luminous, intricate canvases create suspensions and epiphanies, enveloping the viewer in a sylvan atmosphere that evokes both presence and absence.